Tube strike: C-charge and no smoke

Talks are continuing at Acas and even if a settlement is reached in the next five minutes it's hard to see at this late hour how the strike can fail to at least get underway. I still have no news of smoke signals. I can, though, report that Boris will not be suspending the congestion charge as a reward for plucky motorists who struggle into work against the odds, as he did during the glorious snow event earlier this year. The result would be gridlock, which would be both highly embarrassing and not very helpful to users of those additional bus services TfL is laying on. And so it goes. Blimey, is that the time?